University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 25, 1988
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New add policy sought
By a Kansan reporter
A petition to the University Senate could prompt a special meeting to reconsider the proposal for a longer add period.
David Shulenburger, associate dean of business, said he would deliver the petition to Sandra Wick, University Senate Executive Committee administrative assistant, today. About 160 people have signed the petition.
Fifty signatures are needed to prompt a special meeting of the Senate. If one-fifth of the Senate's members, or about 50 members, attend the meeting, the Senate can consider a motion to put the issue on a mail ballot.
"I didn't do much work to get the signatures," Shulenburger said. "I do not believe the add proposal has the support of the faculty."
In January, University Council approved changes that would set a University-wide add policy at three weeks and two days and a drop period at three weeks. Both changes were proposed by the student members of the group.
The proposal is a change from the policy that allows each academic unit to set its own add period of four weeks or less. All academic units have had add periods of two weeks or less since fall 1987.
Jason Krakow, student body president, said he would fight the petition appeal.
Daniel Starling/Special to the KANSAN
Rabbi Mark Levin, Kansas City, Mo., resident, speaks about the plight of Soviet Jews in support of International Solidarity Day for Soviet Jewry. Anna Fridman, foreground, Kansas City, Mo., resident, also spoke last night about her experiences as a "Refusenik" in the Soviet Union. She left the Soviet Union in 1979.
Rabbi pleas for Soviet Jewry
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
U. S. citizens need to contact their Congressmen and demand freedom for Soviet Jews, a Kansas City rabbi said last night.
Mark Levin, lehrin at Temple B'Nai Jehudah in Kansas City, Mo., spoke to about 15 people last night in the Kansas Union's Centennial about the plight of Soviet Jewry and what US citizens can do to help.
European Jewry is by and large dead, he said. Those in Nazism's camp camped World War II crowds.
But there are an additional 2 million Jews in Eastern Europe who did not die in the concentration camps. An active underground Jewish culture has grown in the Soviet Union since the 1960s, in spite of efforts to
Levin spoke in conjunction with International Solidarity Day for Soviet Jewry, which is officially observed today.
Levin made a trip to the Soviet Union in 1985 to meet with Soviet refuseniks. Refuseniks are people who have applied for exit visas with the Soviet government at least once and have been refused.
About 400,000 Soviet Jews have been refused exit visas. he said.
With advances under glasnost, or the policy of "openness" being promoted by Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbache, about 8.000 have been released this year,
but there is much more to be done. Levin said.
Levin credited the involvement of the U.S. government and its citizens for those who had been released
"Sometimes you and I are too blind to know how we can influence those decisions." Levin said.
Levin said people should write or call their Congressmen to keep the issue of Soviet Jewry alive. He also suggested that every year a person from the University of Kansas be sent to the Soviet Union.
Anna Fridman, now of Kansas City, Mo., previously a refusenik, was allowed to leave the Soviet Union with her husband and daughter in 1979 when Soviet authorities permitted massive emigration.
"We could save a major remnant of European Jewry who do not deserve to suffer again," Levin said.
Levin said the United States should refuse to trade or deal with the Soviets unless they agreed to begin releasing more Soviet Jews.
She talked about the life of Jews in the Soviet Union. Jews in the Soviet Union are reminded daily that they are Jews, she said. They have been blamed for most of the Soviet Union's problems since the Revolution of 1917, including the death of Stalin in 1953 and the stagnating economy today. But they are forced to endure that oppression.
"If you want to leave Russia and apply for a visa, you're considered a traitor," she said.
Residents behind rezoning request
Change designed to reduce population density in Oread
Bv Christine Martin
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence residents and property owners discussed a downzoning request at a public hearing last night that would limit apartment construction in the Oread neighborhood.
The request calls for rezoning 119 lots in the 900 blocks of Indiana and Louisiana streets and the 900 and 1000 blocks of Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee streets.
The area would rezone from high-density duplex, multifamily residential and residential-office zoning to lowest density multifamily zoning.
The Oread Neighborhood Association made the request because the association wants to maintain the character of the Oread neighborhood, which consists of mostly large, older homes.
In a report submitted to the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission last week, city staff recommended approval of downzoning only on a property owner's request.
But Francisco disagreed with the city staff's recommendation to downzone only on a property owner's request.
Marci Francisco, neighborhood association president and owner of property on Ohio Street, said the building is currently positively the value of her home.
"If we have neighbors with different zoning, this situation is going to become much more confusing as time goes by," Francisco said.
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If we have neighbors with different zoning, this situation is going to become much more confusing as time goes by.
Marci Francisco neighborhood association president
Sherrill Bushell, association member and owner of property on Tennessee Street, said the rezoning request would protect and preserve the character of the Oread neighborhood.
"There are so few families that haven't been oozed out of the Oread neighborhood that I would love to see anything done to retain the families that are there and encourage others to move there," Bushell said.
Dean Burkhead, an attorney representing the two owners of Birchwood Gardens Apartments on Tennessee Street, was the only person who opposed the rezoning request during the hearing.
Burkhead said students would be negatively affected by the requested rezoning.
"Our major industry in this city happens to be the University," Burkhead said. "To have a University, you need to be a doctor and they all can't live in dorses."
Conference is scheduled to enrich leadership skills for students lost in crowd
He said that the Oread neighborhood was an ideal place for students to live and that the rezoning was a gift to his clients' property investment.
The hearing will continue at the next Planning Commission meeting on March 23.
Kansan staff writer
By Stacy Foster Kansan staff writer
A KU graduate is worried that potential campus leaders could be getting lost in the crowd of students as the University of Kansas continues to grow.
Rusty Leffel, a Kansas City, Kan. lawyer and KU alumnus, said that he was concerned about students who wanted to get involved in campus organizations but might be intimidated by the large number of students.
"If you come from a small town you don't really know how to jump in."
So, Leffel and a group of faculty and students who shared his concern have organized a leadership conference, sponsored by the Organizations and Activities Center. The conference will focus on skills of KU students, and is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Kansas University.
Lefler was active in student government at KU in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is also the namesake of the university's name, that was established at KU in 1973.
He said that KU excelled in leadership opportunities and the conference was planned to put its resources to better use.
KU would be an opportunity to better harness resources of the University and develop leadership potential among its students," Leffel said.
"An organized leadership center at
Leffel said that it was important to have students involved in planning the conference.
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, said that she and the other students involved worked with faculty to come up with seminar topics. They also had to contact faculty members and speakers for each workshop.
"This is truly a student program, by students, for fellow students to develop student leadership," Leffel said.
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of organizations and activities; Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor; and David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, will be speakers at the seminar.
Deanell Tacha, judge on the 10th circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, will speak at the closing luncheon.
"Any student who would be interested in developing leadership skill would certainly benefit from this program," Kaiser said.
Kaiser said the conference was not just for students in campus organizations.
Technical services, rural areas are lagging behind rest of nation, Redwood says
The Associated Press
A slowdown is expected in the national economy, and in Kansas an even more pronounced slowdown is expected. The executive director of the institute,
TOPEKA — The Institute for Public Policy and Business Research at the University of Kansas yesterday presented a gloomy economic outlook for the state this year.
He said the institute's forecast was for minimal increases in employment and personal income for Kansans this year.
Redwood also told the Joint Legislative Economic Development Committee that consulting and technical services, the growth industry nationally both now and into the 1990s, are expanding only in the urban centers of Kansas and "are really lagging behind in the rural areas."
He predicted that the larger cities and certain "regional centers" would experience good economic growth in future years, but that Kansas would
need an aggressive economic development program for all communities
In response to questions from Rep. Jayne Aylward and Sen. Ben Vidricksen, both Salina Republicans, Redwood said Salina was a regional center he thought would prosper.
"I think Salina has an excellent future because of that regional role that is going to be service driven," Redwood said. "Salina will achieve some growth because of its ability to serve the surrounding area."
Redwood said Salina should become a regional center for health services because of a large aging population in its area, as well as a regional center for education, retail stores and arts and culture.
He said Johnson County had been prospering with an influx of service-oriented companies that were national and international in scope, while other cities of Kansas were more likely to attract largely regional service businesses.
However, he cautioned that even the "boom" spots in Kansas were not doing all that well compared with urban centers in other states.
"Even our metropolitan growth is not impressive," Redwood said. "We are in fierce competition with other states, and most of them are outstripping us.
"Basic service jobs are coming into Kansas, but only into the urban areas. Lawrence looks good for Kansas, but its growth is below the town, or just holding its own. Johnson city is better, but it's slowing down, too."
"The major challenge for this state over the next five years is to provide the type of training that is needed to prepare workers for the service industries."
He said it was a "chicken and the egg" situation for medium and small out-state Kansas communities. They can't attract the service industries until they have a qualified work force and they presently are handicapped
By a Kansan reporter
in training such a work force
As far as the state's economic outlook the rest of this year, the institute's report said, "The slowdown in the national economy will be mirrored in the performance of the Kansas economy. Kansas will grow even more slowly than the nation in 1988."
The institute's annual forecast showed state employment and per-
Employment is expected to grow only 7. of 1 percent this year, causing unemployment to rise from 4.8 per cent year to 4.9 percent this year, Redwood said.
Fumes prompt brief evacuation of Malott Hall
The report said Wichita faced a mixed outlook in the aircraft industry.
Three people were treated and released last night after they inhaled chemical fumes emanating from the basement of Malott Hall.
what were later identified as acetone fumes.
He forecasted a 2.3 percent increase in employment in the manufacture of non-durable goods, but only 5 percent in durable goods, with a projected 1.4 percent decline in transportation equipment manufacturing.
Two police officers and a custodial worker were treated after breathing
KU police and the Lawrence fire department were called at 11:25 p.m. to investigate after a custodial worker complained of a chemical odor. Police evacuated the building upon
arrival.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman, said no chemical spill was found. The odor had been coming from the drainage system.
Facilities operations workers were
The building was reopened at 12:30 a.m. Longaker said there was no further danger to students or workers.
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